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“Don’t let the crazies make you crazy.”
-Ryan Holiday
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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its …
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My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man My first allegiance is not to democracy or …
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Alan Jacobs on being “informed”:
“We have a responsibility to be informed!” people shout. Well, …
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A Post-Election Liturgy
“The best way to resist the despair of Empire is to lean into the life that …
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Despite it being 80F here in Ohio today, it’s time to search Apple notes for @patrickrhone’s hot …
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“The election is not up to us. A pandemic is not up to us. A collapse in public trust, public …
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Alan Jacobs on ‘“Joan Didion’s most famous sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”’ …
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Empire is nothing without spectacle.
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No Fate but What We Make
“America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails …
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Light in the Shadows.
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Leaving.
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Falling.
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.”
~Flannery O’Connor, …
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“Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read …
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I Worried by Mary Oliver I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth …
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“It’s a healthy reminder that not everything needs to be a battle. As parents, we can get better at …
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It’s a shame that the new “Hide distracting items” feature in Safari doesn’t work in Apple News.
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“People who pay for shoddy products or careless services and people who are robbed outright are …
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Friday Night.
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Reading by the riverside.
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“A priest and the Baptist are sitting together on the plane. The priest orders a glass of wine, the …
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““When you have gone too far…the only mending is to come home”
From Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
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“The problem with holding a grudge is that it makes your hands too full to do anything …
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The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and …
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Brunch?
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“A great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with, but also finding the …
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“Nothing good ever comes from indulging the egos of old men.”
From Political Proverbs.
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Water Lillies.
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Food for thought on the 4th
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River.
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“I used to think that basically, the whole world, that all humanity were basically bastards. I’ve …
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Saturday.
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“Wilbur Wright explained that were he ‘giving a young man advice as to how he might …
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Sunday Morning Coffee.
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Northern lights in southern Ohio.
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Totality.
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Foliage.
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Card.
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Flowers.
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Toy.
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Food for the mind and soul.
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Anticipation.
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Sunday night vibes.
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Grieving things lost and people let go.
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Merry Christmas!
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Hot take: digital necromancy should be outlawed.
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Winter Wonderlazy…
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‘Tia the season.
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Craig Mod’s latest project, “Things Become Other Things,” is available to order …
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Smoke.
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Fall.
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On Swiftiedom
This is strangely entertaining and informative and fascinating and I didn’t mean …
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Understanding Variation Finished “Understanding Variation”by Donald J Wheeler. I’ll need to reread it and follow up with …
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Kaleidoscope. 🎵
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Diving into The Organized Mind 📚
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Rx. 🎶
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Gezellig. 🎵
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A snap of my beverage and someone else’s that they left behind. 📷
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Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Coffee Roboto. ☕️
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“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just …
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Channeling my inner CGPGrey🐝.
Starting in on Understanding Variation 📚
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AA Flightline @ CLT
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auf Wiedersehen, Frankfurt.
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Gunung Gede.
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Sudirman Street in Bandung.
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Coffee in Bandung.
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WWDC 2023
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Hidden Dimsum. Hawche in Bogor
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Lunch at Lawless Burgerbar.
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Selamat sore, Jakarta.
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Brave?Our oldest’s choir sang this the other night and the girls have sung it in the car a time or two …
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Springtime in Ohio.
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Concentric.
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Waiting.
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Excellent reporting by @joannastern@mastodon.social and Nicole Nguyen on how thieves can steal our …
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February in Ohio.
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I’ve never really been able to articulate my dislike of Android, especially to it’s users, but this …
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Winding down.
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Blood Orange Salmon.
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Garlic Rosemary Pork Chops
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New year, new planner.
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Finished reading: Upgrade by Blake Crouch 📚
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““In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi applied to the New York City government for the first license to make …
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“Aristotle compared the sovereign rule by “the mass of people” to a great potluck dinner party: “For …
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“Science used to be a solo endeavor. A monk with some pea plants could figure out genetics. Today, …
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Cortado.
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“A Book on a Sunday allows you to travel. To escape. To become a better gardener, a more …
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“But these long-haul people, they find a thing they want to do, that needs doing, that they do well, …
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Leave the edges wild…
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A Day in the Life driving the Appalachian Highway across southern Ohio this morning.
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“It is a brave thing indeed to trust there may yet be good amongst the broken parts of our souls, to …
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Dinner and a view.
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“A Perfect Old Fashioned…Does not exist. It’s fiction. Fantasy. A flat out lie. Anyone …
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Today’s office.
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Annie Dillard:
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this …
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“When it comes to technology, my knowledge largely comes from my lack of fear over trying new things …
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Fountain.
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Refreshment.
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“For the history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidences that a …
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Our year old niece Bethany passed away early on July 12th as a result of injuries from an car …
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Summertime.
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Saturday morning vibes.
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WWDC 2022
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“We were told they wanted to conserve the old time religion. What they wanted was to conquer their …
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CarPlay. Woot.
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Fun.
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Lunch. #schoolsout
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Wendell Berry on Marriage“The meaning of marriage begins in the giving of words. We cannot join ourselves to one another …
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The newish currently reading book cover feature on Kindle is probably making me happier than it …
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Think Little by Wendell Berry just arrived from Foggy Pine Books. 📚
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If you are an American Christian and fail to condemn the fundamental evil of White Nationalism seen …
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More purgatory.
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Purgatory.
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After one day’s use, I’m really loving the iPhone 12 mini. It’s a nice balance between old and new. …
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Relax and review.
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“We all participate in the economy of extraction when we practice the belief that our Earth has no …
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Finally finished reading: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 📚
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“In a society that is growing radically more secular every day, I’d say we have more to fear from …
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Weekend reading.
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On Road TripsFrom Huckberry:
“I don’t want to tell you how to live your life, but I do want to tell you that …
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The Worst CaseFrom The Atlantic:
“If we are lucky, this fraught and dysfunctional election cycle will reach a …
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If 2020 has you down, hang on. “It won’t be as long as it has been.”
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New Pen.
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“Tom Cotton” should be come a euphemism for espousing an idea so abjectedly evil and offensive that …
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Jeepish.
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Delight.
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It’s that most magical time of the year wherein I dig up the hot toddy recipe @patrickrhone shared …
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New mercy comes with every morning The unexpected with no warning For loved ones who’ve gone …
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From “Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage” by Derek SiversMinimizing or Maximizing?
When everyone else is trying to automate everything, using a little human …
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Ready.
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from Questionnaire by Wendell Barry
In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved …
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Fire.
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Procrastination is perhaps the worst, most damaging failure of all. We who believe in Jesus, who …
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Coffee time.
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Teh Tarik. Woot.
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Barenaked delight.
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Coffee and bananas.
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Coffee.
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Current Status.
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Its almost like they applied instagram croping and filters to the image: …
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See the wild, customized creations of Indonesia’s ‘rebel riders’“The ultimate rite of passage for a Vespa enthusiast is long-term travel: a deeply personal journey …
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“In church on Sunday, we sang a hymn unfamiliar to me in which we asked the Lord to deliver us from …
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If you’re not part of the Craig Mod’s The _________ Explorers Club, you should be. …
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A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, …
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"Wild Geese" by Mary OliverYou do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the …
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Love and Revelation.
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Just started reading Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism and it sounds a lot like @PatrickRhone so far. …
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My open tabs are a life commentary.
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from “Los Lunas”
“I can fix anything except for me. It’s easy.”
-Karin Bergquist …
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If you are a sales rep for a vendor and use the phrase “circle back” with me in a …
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So excited…
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This.
www.nytimes.com/interacti…
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“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who …
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Brennan Manning in The Ragamuffin Gospel:
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I …
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Maybe its finally time to kick Instagram to the curb: 9to5mac.com/2018/12/2…
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Anticipation.
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When your 6 year-old requests Over the Rhine for the ride to church. @karinbergquistsing …
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Skaters.
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and Emma Jane.
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Candy Cane.
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Joy.
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Nemesis.
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Barn.
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Mondays.
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I wonder how long it will take @helengullett to se this post….
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Princess.
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Tribal.
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Flags.
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Rose 3.0
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Rose 2.0
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Rose.
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Waiting. #lookupchildtour
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More laughter.
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Laughter.
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Sisters?
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This morning’s office.
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Hello Kitty is my copilot.
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Maybe I should have read the manual.
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A watermelon milkshake is the best way to wrap up a camping trip.
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I have an axe, a knife and a fire. Don’t tempt me ducks. #bebekpanggang #goodeats
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Making breakfast.
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Down to my last Camping Gaz cartridge for my trusty old Bluet. And the odds of finding another are …
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Morning.
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Some people arrive way early for games, concerts or parades. We came early for this.
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Sunrise.
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Waiting.
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Mother’s Day.
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Biscuits
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Morning.
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2018 is looking up.
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Yoda.
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Anticipation.
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‘‘Twas the night…”
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Take it from the top.
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2017 pt 2.
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2017 so far.
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Adulting.
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Cupcakes.
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Fall. #allthewords
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Flags.
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Ahhhhhhhhhh. #contentment
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Hello.
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Sunday. #nockshots @fieldnotesbrand @penaddict
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getspectrum Not too shabby.
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School day. #twinning
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Woot! #Sapelo #nockshots
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Spinning.
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Ouch. #wereallok #latergram
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Yum.
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Almost.
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Independence.
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Dear Indonesians, This is called breakfast. Love, Dave.
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Almost.
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Leaving.
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Loved.
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Gereja.
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Jagung Bakar.
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Kepiting. Only $422.84
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Donuts.
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Es Krim.
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Pujian.
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Up.
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Ice cream.
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The Queen.
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Frosty. X2
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Ikan dan kolumbi.
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Danau.
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Lunch.
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Lokon 2.
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Lokon.
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Feeding more birds.
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Feeding the birds.
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Burung.
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Desa Wisata.
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This is us.
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“The Beauty of a Heron” by Abigail
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Istrahat.
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Where we were and where are hearts remain….
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Leaving on a 3 hour tour. Which was supposed to be 30 minutes. But a dead motor and an unexpected …
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On approach to Doha.
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Bonfire.
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On the ocean.
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Almost.
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Orchids.
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And this girl also.
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This girl.
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Passing the time.
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Waiting.
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Silly.
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Mother’s Day!
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Noodle time.
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Fire.
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Roasting donuts over an open fire.
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krispykreme Is that little red sign supposed to discourage daydreams about hijacking your trucks? …
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Dell 700m running Ubuntu 9.10. Haven’t booted since 2009 when @helengullett got her MacBook. …
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Hmmm.
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Real Girl imagination power.
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Mini Girl SCIENCE Power.
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Mini Girl power.
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smarrig.
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City time.
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New ‘do.
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Baptism.
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Last Easter Lily.
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Lilac?
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Egg hunt.
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Abigail.
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Emma.
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Tripled my “Move Goal”. #yardwork #deskjockey
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Tulip.
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Spring.
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Soccer.
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Soccer.
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Golden Star Lilly.
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Blue skies. Yard tools. Grilling out. Top off the Jeep. #Spring
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ThunderCats Ho!
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Ouch.
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Finally subscribed to @nytimes @washingtonpost @NewYorker and @TheAtlantic yesterday. “The only …
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Too bad @helengullett is out of town. Came home to @jenisicecreams on the front porch.
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Wind in the pines. #ohio
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Rainy afternoons are for reading. #bestbookmarkever